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As expected, States with better literacy are doing well.The Registrar General & Census Commissioner recently released the Census 2011 data on Households with at least one member with Educational level matriculation and above by Household Size. The data includes number of households with graduates, households with male graduates, female graduates etc. The Government recently released the Census 2011 data on Households with at least one member with education level Matriculation & above. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form.

There is almost a 4.5% point increase in the number of households with at least one graduate or above.Top 10 States/UTs вЂ“ % of Households with at least one Graduate or aboveIn States/UTs, Delhi tops the chart with 40.3% households with at least one graduate or above followed by the UTs Chandigarh (39.9%) & Puducherry (29.7%). The corresponding percentage in the 2001 census was 12.2%. This is about 16.7% of the total households or one out of every 6 households.

This is 49.5% of the total households. 17 States/UTs are above the national average percentage of households with a female graduate while the remaining 18 are below the national average.As per the census data, about 12.3 crore households have at least one matriculate or above out of the 24.8 crore households. The difference is as high as 3.4 percentage points in Kerala.15 States/UTs are above the national average percentage of households with a male graduate while the remaining 20 are below the national average.

Kerala is the only state with more households of female matriculates than male matriculates. In households with male matriculate, Chandigarh tops the list with 68.6% households while Kerala tops the list in households with a female matriculate with 60.8%. 20 States/UTs fall above the national average of 49.5% while only 15 fall below. There is more than a 10 percentage point jump in the 10 years.The number of households with at least one male matriculate and above is 10.5 crore (42.2%) while 7.5 crore (30.3%) households have at least one female matriculate and above in the country.Kerala (75.5%) tops the chart with every 3 out of 4 households having one matriculate or above. The corresponding percentage in 2001 was 39.4.

Meghalaya (24.6%) is also at the bottom in households with male matriculates with while Bihar (17.4%) occupies the last place in households with female matriculates. Meghalaya has the lowest percentage of households with a matriculate (33.4%).

Indian 2001 Household Size